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Date:      Wed, 6 Feb 2008 17:51:45 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Bogdan Culibrk <bc@default.co.yu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Some ZFS experience
Message-ID:  <20080206174915.O4330@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <1202313434.5415.209.camel@serafim>
References:  <1202313434.5415.209.camel@serafim>

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> What happened:
> 1. Base system running on gmirror volume consisting of 4 mirrors booted
> up normally in degraded mode with 3 of 4 drives online.
> 2. /data powered by raidz1 zfs was showing 3 drives, 2 online and 1
> faulted. zfs list was showing that volume is unavailable due lack of
> spares.

you told about having raidz over 4 drives.
so while it reports 2 online and 1 faulted, not 3 online and 1 faulted?

> What was wrong when 3 drives were connected? Wasnt supposed to raidz1
> survive lack of 1 drive? Or I did something wrong there?

yes it should work normally. in case of raid-z - with just a bit slower 
speed according to ZFS theory.




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